Connected Soldiers - Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War (Paperback)

John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle. During that combat tour, he learned how important unit cohesion was to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable. Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed, the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2022
Authors:	John Spencer
Dimensions:	225 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-64012-512-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Theory of warfare & military science Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General
LSN:	1-64012-512-4
Barcode:	9781640125124

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